Colorful Garden Chat Picture Thread

... this attitude should basically prevail ... pay for ideas etc. and not just reap the benefits. The 130 euros are, depending on the depth of a plan, in part not really cost-covering, but they appreciate that someone is thinking about your environment.

I would have seen the offer of planning also at an online nursery.

I also think it’s completely OK that a sum of xy is demanded for a plan. And if you only take the plan to guide yourself in your own work.

Our architect (and long-time acquaintance before construction and neighbor since moving in) helped us out during the rough planning. We probably would have designed the terrain height offsets boringly; the experts really manage to do more with that.

In our area, a great public space was created by an even greater (and unaffordable) landscape gardener, and all the plants are labeled with tags. I took photos of these areas repeatedly over months during my jogging rounds and hope that at least the reference to that worked well. That was my lively cheat sheet and really great as inspiration!

In the end, a garden just has to grow and thrive, and some plants will die and have to be replaced. And right now, I’m ridiculously happy about every green leaf that appears on my perennials!

With us, the cats make a mess everywhere. Every flowerbed, the greenhouse, and simply everything where they can dig – and not only our own two cats (they do this at our place and the neighbor's, I've observed it several times) but also other roaming cats. We have ants everywhere. After I filled my raised bed last year with different layers, including sand, I had ants in it after just a few weeks. I definitely couldn't put a sandbox here. The greenhouse is empty in winter, so without plants, and this winter it apparently served as a nice dry, windless cat litter box, yuck. Piles are still easy to see and remove, but cats don't only do piles^^.

In the next few days, there is supposed to be a significant ground frost regionally again!

I had the day off today and went to OBI to hunt for some bargains. I have a small bed on the side of the front yard that is mostly in shade and partial shade. I will replant it tomorrow. There is already a beautiful old farmer's hydrangea and 2 Rosy Boom in the partial shade; I have now bought some ground cotoneasters in different colors, and for the shade, moss saxifrage and Caucasus forget-me-not, as well as a few mountain cornflowers for the partial shade. A privet is still there in the shade and is surprisingly doing well. Last week I went to the local garden center and got my balcony box plants there. But rather the classics like (Hänge)Geranien, petunias, Schneeflocke.

Topic voles: We have had them since last year as well, or rather the neighbors have them, but they have only dug in my sunbed, which is right by the fence. Several roses and perennials have fallen victim to them. I then planted everything in the area in wire baskets (dug them up again for this) and continue to do so now. They are real pests... and we already have so many cats.